This dissertation will interrogate the possibilities of blending literary trauma theory with ecocriticism to arrive at a new hermeneutics for reading, where human and environmental trauma are not viewed as ...read more
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
Despite their status as null subject languages, several southern Italian dialects feature expletive subject pronouns. These do not serve as a ‘dummy subject pronoun’ like typical expletives, but rather have ...read more
This project is intended to examine why people believe in a bullshit assumption or theory at the expense of reason and evidence focusing on Ethiopian experiences. Due to lack of ...read more
One of the universal properties of human language is that it changes over time. Understanding the mechanisms of language change is therefore key to understanding the properties of natural language ...read more
Memory scholars have been criticizing the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the twentieth century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
This project investigates the use of African American English (AAE) features by live performing blues artists belonging to different social groups and time periods, and analyzes the social meaning that ...read more
This research project strives to fill the research gaps concerning three bodily-related controversies (baring the right shoulder, sitting in a leisurely position while eating, and shaving the hair) discussed inside Buddhist ...read more
Although Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and every three seconds a person in the world develops the disease, little is still known about the exact ...read more
A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more